Posted on 07/20/2022 10:29:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
NBA star Andrew Wiggins is regretting his decision to submit to the coercion and social pressure by receiving the COVID-19 vaccine against his conscience and values.
Wiggins, a 2022 NBA champion who plays for the Golden State Warriors, says he regrets folding after initially refusing the experimental jab.
“I still wish I didn’t get [vaccinated], to be honest with you,” Wiggins said while speaking with FanSided.
“I did it, and I was an All-Star this year and champion, so that was the good part, just not missing out on the year, the best year of my career,” Wiggins continued.
“But for my body, I just don’t like putting all that stuff in my body, so I didn’t like that and I didn’t like that it wasn’t my choice. I didn’t like that it was either get this or don’t play,” he added.
Big League Politics reported on another NBA star, Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets, becoming a folk hero after standing strong and missing half of the 2022 season because of his staunch stance for medical freedom:
“Freedom protesters and supporters of NBA star Kyrie Irving made their voices heard Sunday outside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where the Brooklyn Nets play home games. Point guard Kyrie Irving refuses to take the Coronavirus injection, which has led to Irving’s effective suspension from the team. Irving is disallowed from playing in home games in New York City due to a government mandate and the Brooklyn Nets are not letting him play road games either. Like Nicki Minaj, who expressed skepticism of the Coronavirus vaccine and refused to back down, Irving is leading by example and galvanizing people to resist Coronavirus tyranny. The arena was temporarily locked down.
Kyrie Irving is steadfast in his determination to keep his body natural and pure, rather than getting it filled with Pfizer juice.”
At least one NBA player suffered debilitating blood clots after submitting to the COVID jab. Veteran basketball player Brandon Goodwin was told to keep quiet after he suffered horrific side effects because of the shot.
“My back really started hurting bad,” Goodwin said. “Then, I’m like, ‘OK. I need to go to the doctor. That’s when I found out I had blood clots. That all within the span of a month.”
“I was fine until then. I was fine up until I took the vaccine, I was fine. People trying to tell you, ‘No. It’s not the vaccine.’ How do you know? You don’t know. Yes, the vaccine ended my season. One thousand percent,” he added.
Wiggins did the wrong thing by submitting to the jab, but he refuses to lie about why he took it. It had to do with staying on the basketball court. It was coercion that forced him into getting the shot, not a legitimate public health purpose.
I can appreciate his delimna, athletes depend on their body, some take that seriously, if you do, why put anything into your body that could hinder your athletic career.
In Wiggin’s case, he was the #1 overall draft pick and was considered somewhat of a bust in Minnesota and ended up in Golden State where he was on a championship level team and played a crucial role and was an NBA all-star this year. He must have felt the pressure to live up to his #1 pick status and prove himself and if he didn’t take the jab he would have been sidelined for most of the year and probably be finished in the NBA.
I guess all these youngins never heard of Nancy Regan and her motto of JUST SAY NO!
The NBA never had a vaxx mandate for players.
And many states have an opt-out for athletes.
The guy should’ve stuck to his guns.
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In effect, though, did they not have such a policy?
The NBA may not have had a mandate, but individual states did, Kyrie Irving played in NYC, he was forced to miss more than half the season for refusing the Vax, even though visiting teams had players that also refused the vax but were allowed to play.
California where Wiggins played would have been the same situation, he would have missed a bunch of games and was not a max contract type of player and it might have been the end of his career.
Did you read the article ??
It’s easy to say stick to your guns but when millions of dollars and your career are on the line, it’s hard to do that.
Waiting for the democrat/media/big pharma/Faux-xi cheerleaders on here to say the death serum is perfectly safe with 98% efficacy.
Stop complying with your own slavery.
In other words, stop complying.
KKthx?
Personally, short of a massive, massive awakening and uprising and the subsequent removal of all these parasite politicians, Big Pharma, the unelected elitists and their organizations of unelected thugs and murders, etc., it’s becoming near too late to do anything but prepare oneself spiritually and survival wise. Get off the grid, secure your own or your families supply lines, etc. The storm is coming and its going to change this world more so than what the world has changed already. Normality is over. Privacy is near dead. Free speech is near dead. Freedom is near dead. And all being done by unelected elitists who control those who are ‘elected’. Go figure.
“The NBA never had a vaxx mandate for players.”
Don’t really need one if all the team owners issue their own mandates.
“Wiggins, a 2022 NBA champion who plays for the Golden State Warriors, says he regrets folding...”
So. Is his not being adult enough to think through his needs a point of interest? He is nothing but an NBA goon that makes money off the people by way of entertainment. Nothing more.
My son also made a decision not to take the vaccines. He is a truck driver for the port of Tacoma that move goods to the people. So he is far more important to the country than a basketball player. But he’s not so self important that he has to announce his decision.
Kylie Irving is a perfect example of the fallacy of the call for the NBA. He is penalized by not receiving pay for home games. Total on that for the year is at $16 million. His total salary according to Forbes is right at $50 million. And he can write the $16M off. Gosh, what a disaster!!
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